| | Current Music: | Atmosfear, "Always Coming Back Home to You" | | Subject: | feed me... see more! | | Time: | 12:23 am |
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| If you recognize the title you will want to know that I was once in a set crew that built the big plant in Little Shop of Horrors. (If you don't recognize the title, that's just fine with me.) And whether or not you recognize the title, you may want to know that some enterprising soul has created something called a feed for our site.
If you put accommodatfeed into your LJ friends list, you will get all the latest posts from the accommodatingly site beamed directly into your brain safely conveyed to your own livejournal friends page almost as soon as Jessie and/or I post to our site.
I had no idea this was even possible until Jessie told me tonight that it was taking place. Many thanks to whoever created the feed.
Also, why doesn't livejournal have a "current reading" slot? I guess because we do listen to music while typing, and we don't normally read books while typing? Whatever. My current reading is Dombey and Son, and I have promised not to start any new twentieth-century fiction (I am starting new poetry books, of course) until I've finished it. Believe it or not, the novel-- almost 1,000 pages in my paperback version-- exists in complete searchable online form. I recommend it only for people who have already finished, and already really liked, both Bleak House and David Copperfield. | comments: 8 comments or Leave a comment   |
| | Current Music: | Grant Hart, "2541" | | Subject: | currently everywhere | | Time: | 10:15 am |
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| Just discovered that a few more people have added me as a friend-- thanks!
This is my periodic reminder that I am now blogging at our personal accommodatingly site (as is Jessie).
For the past couple of weeks I have been womenshoops blogging at womenshoops.
For the past week I have been collecting literary criticism and poetry at Andrew Johnston's excellent The Page. Andrew comes back from vacation very soon and will get his site back. I had very little idea how hard it is to find a new and substantial piece of poetry-criticism on the Web every single weekday... but that's what Andrew more or less does.
I'm also at the Huffington Post this morning-last night.
At least two of our cats are curled up into perfect spheres. | | comments: 2 comments or Leave a comment |
| | Current Music: | Husker Du, "Celebrated Summer" | | Subject: | still here | | Time: | 12:46 pm |
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| Still blogging at accommodatingly and stopping by here to read y'all's posts: thought you'd like a reminder in case you want to read ours. Also in the Huff Post again today here, this time on basketball. (Maybe literature next time.)
We would attend Andy's funeral if we were not thousands of miles away. I'll try to send something that can be left there, if not read then. | | comments: 1 comment or Leave a comment |
| | Current Music: | Bob Mould, modulate | | Subject: | sit down on it | | Time: | 07:10 am | | Current Mood: | ![[mood icon]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/twotone/hamsters/wheel_hammy.gif) busy |
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| As of today, and assuming the contract comes through as promised, I'm the incoming chair of the Mac English Department.
(Posted here because I know some Mac people and some academic friends read LJ constantly; more detailed and more regular updates on our lives can now be found at our own site.)
Feel free to post advice, warnings, complaints as comments here. (Post them fast if they're the sort of problem I can try to solve at ADE. Post them slowly if you prefer and if they're the sort of problem that won't come up till the fall.) | | comments: 9 comments or Leave a comment |
| | Subject: | British Sea Power | | Time: | 11:26 am |
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| From the new British Sea Power album:
"I wrote elegiac stanzas for you/ I hope and pray that they come true!"
(Not these elegiac stanzas, I hope.)
The album so far sounds like a somewhat better Keane, or like a slightly slicker version of the more commercial songs on the first BSP. So far so good.
Don't forget, most of our lives now chronicled at the new, snazzier accommodatingly site, and not necessarily cross-posted here. | | comments: 1 comment or Leave a comment |
| | Current Music: | His Name Is Alive: Stars on ESP | | Subject: | less of me | | Time: | 05:22 am |
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| Jessie has used her skills, concentration and devotion to revamp the accommodatingly site so that it's a freestanding blog rather than a receipient for livejournal feeds. Check it out.
That means we're blogging there now, here not so much. If you are someone who understands RSS feeds, please adjust your RSS feeds accordingly; if you are someone who keeps up with us through an lj friends list but doesn't understand RSS feeds, and I sure don't understand them yet, it means there's just one more freestanding blog you should visit regularly, as I may not be posting here very much (still hanging around, though).
OK, two more. (This is the blog of my cousin, an indie theater director and producer in New York. Or rather: the blog of her small fluffy dog.)
And if there's anything we need to see in Indianapolis, other than the obvious, do let us know. | | comments: 4 comments or Leave a comment |
| | Current Music: | Laura Nyro | | Subject: | back, sorta | | Time: | 10:24 pm |
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| Back from DC. It's good to see my family there, even for a sad reason; it's nice to know that the de-icing equipment at O'Hare works properly, even though our plane had to wait in a half-hour queue to use it. It's kinda bizarre, but also "awesome" (Jessie's term), to watch Al Green crawl across Jon Stewart's couch. And it's certainly time for Macalester's spring break. (My preceptor took over our class today, as planned; I hope she knows she did a spectacular job.)
Also good to know that Respectful of Otters is back; Rivka (Respectful) is where I go for commentary on public health, reproductive health, and HIV issues. She's a genuine expert who writes well, rather than a writer who kinda knows stuff. She's also, apparently, about to give birth, and writes well about that, too.
Read or reread a stack of books during this week's air travel. James Galvin's last one is considerably better than I thought when it came out-- the real-life backstory distracted me (and everybody else) from the verbal qualities in the poetry. Liked the first half of Bigfoot Dreams as well (the second half much less): do you have a favorite Prose novel? Did I start in the wrong place? | | comments: 1 comment or Leave a comment |
| | Subject: | Calling Chicagoland readers... | | Time: | 08:36 pm |
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| ...very much worth getting to know Christine.
(She almost beat Mr. Hyde last cycle, too.)
My seventh-grade niece wants to be a placekicker on her middle-school football team, and has been told only boys need apply; I emailed the Women's Sports Foundation and got back an impenetrable bushel of legalese, which neither she nor her mom nor any supportive teachers at her school will be able to use. What to do next? (She lives in Connecticut.) | | comments: 8 comments or Leave a comment |
| | Current Music: | Elvis Costello, "North" | | Subject: | Competitors | | Time: | 08:41 am |
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| Is Adam Kirsch now the regular poetry critic for the New Yorker? It looks like his book of criticism is out.
Usually when Jenny praises a book which conventional wisdom says is terrible, Jenny is right. She told me to read Baldwin's last novel last month, and I'm finally getting round to it....we'll see.
Michigan State are a very good team. Last night they made Janel very unhappy. We hung with them till a minute remained despite her woes-- we looked like a much better team than in our regular-season meetings with MSU, in which the Spartans just rolled over us. Excited for the tournament. We're at least a Sweet Sixteen team, maybe better. MSU could be Final Four.
Last night we watched MSU and then Duke-UNC and then Stanford-ASU. When you go from watching a Big Ten game to watching a game in another major conference you sometimes have to readjust your eyees a bit-- the other conferences' players can look smaller and faster, or, put another way, B10 players look bigger. And slower. (Except for Renee Haynes.) UNC's guards looked almost like NBA guards-- sloppy, but in NCAA play nearly unbeatable. | | comments: 1 comment or Leave a comment |
| | Current Music: | Moving Targets, "Away from Me" | | Subject: | wow | | Time: | 09:03 pm |
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| Holy cow. Gophers win. Amazing game. Best we've played all year.
Nothing more to say for now. I'm delighted and amazed. | | comments: Leave a comment |
| | Subject: | Do Not Believe? or Decidedly Nifty Book? | | Time: | 12:27 am |
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| What, if anything, went wrong with the new DNB? I can't tell from the article if this sort of thing happens all the time with big reference books; whether there's been a larger-than-normal cock-up; or whether people who say the book's full of errors are really attacking its new attention to ordinary folks.
This guy feels sure it's a cock-up. OUP says it's fine. I was hoping one of these stories would provide good examples of an odd problem facing large reference works-- the shortage of experts able to check the experts: how many people are there able to really check the entry on, say, Matthew Prior, or able to judge whether, in a dispute between Prior experts, one is wrong and the other right, or whether there's simply a difference of opinion? --But some of the mistakes the Observer cites concern empirically verifiable facts about people whose lives and careers are, as such things go, well known. (E.g. does a certain Jane Austen MS exist in the British Library, or not?) At least they'll be able to make the corrections online.
You can sign up here for a daily biography via email, which I think is really cool. | | comments: 1 comment or Leave a comment |
| | Subject: | some questionable calls | | Time: | 11:52 am |
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| Several great games in WCBB tournaments last night, including a close win for our Gophers. Jamie Broback is my hero. Also a weird one in the SEC tournament, where the 1/9 game was decided by the officiating. One of the refs called the shot a 3, and the scoreboard registered a 3, but another ref called the shot a 2, and the player who had the ball after the shot (who happened to be LSU's Slayer) saw the 2-call, not the 3-call (and, since a 2 meant her team would win the game, didn't bother to shoot in the last possession). That's a damned-if-you-do, damned-if-you-don't situation for the officials involved, though I would rather have seen the 3 and the overtime than the one-point LSU win we got; most of the fans apparently felt as I did.
Speaking of fishy calls, if you were the poetry editor of a well-known national magazine, would you publish a poem you had written yourself? Or one you had translated yourself? | | comments: 1 comment or Leave a comment |
| | Current Music: | Blind Bats | | Subject: | no more politics blogs? | | Time: | 10:15 am |
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| Holy crap. Apparently, if these proposals go through, you'll have to bone up on fairly complex FEC regulations if you want to even link to a candidate's website, or forward email about a candidate to your private address book-- otherwise you'd be risking massive fines. The Democrats' Internet fundraising? All gone. Online organizing? All gone. We'd be back to the days of Fox News vs. the New York Times, the RNC's direct-mail vs. the DNC's, and we already know who wins that fight.
Isn't there a core First Amendment function here? And what on earth are Democrats, especially really good Democrats, doing supporting these proposals? (Do you live in Wisconsin? Let him know what you think.) (Via Atrios.)
UPDATE: This guy says the left blogosphere's getting played. I have no idea if he's right. (I know some people with law degrees read me sometimes...) | | comments: Leave a comment |
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